"Are you right with God?" is a question that used to mark a style of preaching and ministry. (it may not be the most Lutheran expression but it had its place in our preaching too). It is the same as...

The younger we are the free-er we are. Of course, as much as we cannot go back into our mother's womb, as the Pharisee Nicodemus attested, so we can neither stay little nor go back to being little, as tempting...

How long did the ten lepers live together? They lived in something like a leper colony in no-mans-land, far from towns and villages. They shared the same fate and because they did, they understood each other. Fair enough, they probably left different professions,...

In Winnipeg there was a small group of bi-lingual pastors that got together once a month or so for mutual support. When we moved to Winnipeg they invited me to join them. At my first attendance an 80...

I have fond memories of my grandfather. In fact, I credit him with turning out vaguely normal. Of course whether I actually did, may be subject to debate. My grandfather was 80 when I was born and I was...

Holy Cross Day must have been restored to the calendar of the church when the church adopted a version of our current lectionary, our current rotation of readings, in 1978. Holy Cross Day is like Christmas in that it has a fixed...